About me

I work in the field of biomaterials, lab-on-chip devices, micro/-nanofabrication, micro/- nanosystems, signal video and image processing for biomedical applications.

Research and Development Experience: I have over 11 years of research and development experience in an area of Bioengineering. I have worked on the design, fabrication and characterization of scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering, organ-on-chip model of intestine and eye, in-vitro tumor models and skin tissue engineering. Further, I have been engaged in design and fabricate micro-/nanofluidic devices for gas/solute exchange applications demanded in artificial lungs and kidney dialyzers, passive micropumps, blood microsampling used in diagnostics and pharmaceutical industry. In addition, I have been involved in design and fabrication of novel nanomaterials for biomedical applications. I have also worked in the field of imaging and image processing of colored, grey-scale and binary images.

Entrepreneurial Experience: I have over 9 years of experience in start-ups. I have been a co-founder of three tech start-ups (Iota Design and Innovation Labs Pvt Ltd, Nouvatek Biosciences Pvt Ltd and Spin Nanofiber Technologies LLP), where I along with my team conceptualized and working on the in-vitro skin model and tumor models for drug screening application ( personalized medicine) and manufacturing of electrospinning set-up for research applications, respectively. I have been also a co-founder to two educational ventures (web portals); Ab Kya Karu and Craft your Career with Dr. Rajesh Vasita and Varun Mehra, respectively. I have experience on conducting the market survey, ideation of products/services, research and development for product innovation, business development and administration. For more details about start-ups, please see entrepreneurial experience.

Teaching and Mentoring Experience: I have about 3 year experience in teaching and mentoring graduate and postgraduate students. I have been teaching assistant for Tissue Engineering and Biomaterial courses at Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur (Jan 2009 - Dec 2009). I have also been supervising B-Tech and M-Tech Industrial training projects at Computational Instrumentation, CSIO Chandigarh (Oct, 2010-Jun 2011). In addition, I have also given private tuition on biochemistry to BSc student of Mumbai University, Physics to 10+2 students for engineering entrance and mentored students for GATE exam ( Aug 2014 - Nov 2014). I have supervised Summer Internship project at IISc Bangalore (May 2017-July 2017, May 2018-July 2018). I have been teaching and mentoring research projects of PG and PhD students at NIPER-Ahmadabad (Oct 2018-March 2020). I am currently teaching and mentoring UG, PG and PhD students at NIT Rourkela (June 2020 - present). I have successfully guided 4 Masters thesis dissertation.